Eagles Collaborate Cross-Country to Enhance Homeland Security
Optimizing human performance is the key to improving airport security — and, by extension, homeland security — according to researchers at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Students…
Posted In: Applied Science | Human Factors | Research | Security Intelligence and Safety
Eagle Earns Tillman Scholarship, Builds on Embry-Riddle Research to Improve Human Performance in Space
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University alumna Giovanna Camacho is a lot of things: a boxer, a scuba Divemaster and a U.S. Army medic, to name a few. This summer, however, she added yet…
Posted In: Applied Science | Human Factors | Space
Research on Driving Behavior Lands Embry-Riddle Professor NSF CAREER Award
Research led by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Dr. Subhradeep Roy, which will use virtual reality (VR) technology while collecting data to better understand, quantify…
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Embry-Riddle Teams Up with Bethune-Cookman in EcoCAR EV Challenge
When Bethune-Cookman University student Israel Oyekan joined the intercollegiate EcoCAR EV Challenge team with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, he figured it was an opportunity…
Posted In: Computers and Technology | Engineering | Human Factors
Speedway Project Promises Insights Into Heart Disease, Space Travel, More
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally, killing an estimated 17.9 million people each year. To combat this trend, researchers at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University…
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Eagle Undergrad’s Research on ‘Space Mice’ Tops National Conference
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University senior Olivia Siu won first place in the undergraduate Brain and Behavior category of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s…
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How Does Air Travel Affect Your Emotions? Eagle Researcher Seeks Answers
Engaged in research that monitors the emotional reactions of airline passengers to their travel experience, Dr. Stathis Kefallonitis, associate professor in the College of Business,…
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Eagles Collaborate in Unique High-Altitude Simulation Training
The first time senior Olivia Siu experienced hypoxia — a condition caused by lack of oxygen, sometimes suffered by pilots — she thought she was functioning fairly well.
She…
Posted In: Applied Science | Aviation | Human Factors
Embry-Riddle Study Assesses Medical Helicopter Risks
To transport injured patients, helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) pilots must fly at night, at low altitudes, over rough terrain and in bad weather. Sadly, compared with all…
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New Data Science Tool Boosts First-Year Student Success
When Data Science graduate student Alex Hall heard that the educational support specialist in Embry-Riddle’s College of Arts and Sciences (COAS) was manually downloading data in order…
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Eagle Researchers Examine Gender, Racial Bias in Aviation
As the aviation industry strives to diversify its workforce pipeline, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University researchers just published a paper demonstrating the bias faced by aspiring…
Posted In: Aviation | Human Factors | Research
Embry-Riddle’s Aerospace Physiology Program Assists with Vaccine Distribution
As tireless healthcare providers around the world race to distribute new Covid-19 vaccinations, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s one-of-a-kind Aerospace Physiology program…
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Embry-Riddle Research Aims to Blunt Aviation Cyber Attacks
Research is being conducted at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based technologies to ward off or mitigate cyber threats involving airplanes,…
Posted In: Aviation | Human Factors | Security Intelligence and Safety | Uncrewed Systems
Students Engineer Their Way to NASA Design Development
When Lea Miller was a little girl growing up in Pearl River, New York, she used to watch Star Trek, dreaming that she would one day be able to explore other worlds like they did on…
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Eagle Uses A.I. to Combat Covid-19 in Virtual Internship
Rising Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University junior Audrey Osburn dreams of one day being an astronaut working onboard the International Space Station, and she is hoping a summer internship…
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